Amazon.com, Inc. sacked two employees linked to an organizing campaign that led to the company’s first-ever unionized warehouse in the U.S., CNBC reports. Mat Cusick and Tristan Dutchin have worked with the Amazon Labor Union, led by current and former company employees, to organize workers at the Amazon warehouses on New York’s Staten Island. The ALU…
US Labor Board Accuses Starbucks of Retaliatory Firings
By Josh Eidelson From Bloomberg News Starbucks Corp. violated federal law by firing, threatening, and carrying out surveillance on union activists in New York, U.S. labor board prosecutors alleged in a complaint. The agency’s Buffalo regional director said in a filing Friday that the company illegally interfered with employees’ rights by firing six and retaliating…
Amazon Workers at 2nd NYC Warehouse Reject Union Bid
Amazon warehouse workers overwhelmingly rejected a union bid on Monday, dealing a blow to organizers who last month pulled off the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the retail giant’s history. This time around, warehouse workers cast 618 votes—or about 62 percent—against the union, giving Amazon enough support to fend off a second labor win…
Vote Tally Begins in 2nd Amazon Union Election in NYC
A federal labor board on Monday will count ballots cast by warehouse workers in a second Amazon union election on Staten Island. The National Labor Relations Board is overseeing the election and expects to finish tallying the votes by Monday evening. A separate election held last month gave a nascent group of organizers known as…
Union Seeking to Organize Amazon Site in New Jersey Withdraws Petition for Vote
A labor group seeking to represent Amazon.com Inc workers in a small warehouse in New Jersey has withdrawn its petition for a unionization vote, a spokesperson for the U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) said on Tuesday. The move came a day after the NLRB said the group, Local 713 International Brotherhood of the Trade…
Amazon Workers in Small New Jersey Facility File for Union Election
April 20, 2022
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(Reuters) -Amazon.com Inc workers at a small facility in New Jersey have shown enough interest to hold a vote on unionizing, the U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) said on Monday. At least 60 of 200 workers from Amazon’s DNK5 depot in Bayonne, New Jersey, have submitted cards seeking to organize as part of Local…
Grocery Workers Ratify Contract With Stater Bros.
LOS ANGELES—Southern California grocery workers voted “overwhelmingly” to ratify a new three-year contract with Stater Bros., with voting scheduled this week on a tentative deal with other stores including Ralphs and Vons/Pavilions/Albertsons. Members of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) ratified the Stater Bros. deal that was reached on April 1. It will go into…
Amazon Objects to Staten Island Union Victory, Alleges Employees Were Coerced Into Voting
Amazon.com Inc. has said it objects to a union victory at its JFK8 warehouse in the New York City borough of Staten Island on April 2, accusing the new union, Amazon Labor Union (ALU), of having threatened workers into voting. The U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) said in an April 6 filing that it is giving…
Over 50 Amazon Warehouses in US Contact Union After New York Vote
Amazon.com Inc. labor organizer Christian Smalls said on Tuesday more than 50 warehouses of the e-commerce giant in the U.S. reached out after its warehouse in New York City voted to form the first union at the company. “Since we WON @amazonlabor has been contacted by workers in over 50 buildings Nationwide not including the…
Amazon’s New Union Demands Company Start Bargaining in May
The union that Amazon.com Inc. workers recently voted to represent them has demanded the company start bargaining in early May and cease any changes to employment terms at their warehouse in the interim, according to a letter the group issued Saturday on Twitter. The Amazon Labor Union also demanded the retailer respect workers’ rights to…
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